Kaito Voyager Pro KA600 Digital Solar Dynamo Crank Wind Up AM/FM/LW/SW & NOAA Weather Emergency Radio with Alert, RDS & Smart Phone Charger, Yellow

It's good for what is being used for. It's good it takes different batteries and can be plugged in to a different power source. I found though that it doesn't charge by hand cranking well. It takes a long time to do so. But if you listen to it while charging you have to continuously crank the handle when the battery isn't charged on it. Batteries die kinda quick. But this is an emergency radio not your daily use radio. So that it can play the radio while charging with the crank handle is a good thing because in an emergency you need it now not later. The ham channels are cool but not widely used around where I live but who knows they may come in handy one day. The government weather channels are really nice to have.

I have several locations I placed radios. Moistures and age are a great enemy. So far battery life exceeds lithium ion and i am ordering another. August 27 update. Unable to get company supports. The tuning knob no longer works. Freewheels. Tried to submit email and it will not go. I have to have an account???!

I was looking for a radio that had all the bands, including short wave, and ran off battery, solar, or crank up hand power, and I found it in this one. The only reason I'm not giving it five stars is the first radio that shipped had a defect in the LCD display that caused some elements of the frequency numbers to be missing, making it confusing to read the display. Amazon and the seller made it good by allowing a return and almost immediately crediting my account. And I almost immediately ordered another, which came to me in perfect condition. I'm using the radio as a backup to have at home ready and able to listen to if my power goes out. I'm not planning on using it outdoors or on camping trips, etc., but it seems durable enough for that, too. The case is well-built and attractive, and the controls are simple and easy to use. The sound quality is what one would expect from a stand-alone radio. I did not expect it to operate directly from the solar cells, just recharge from them, but I do not think that it would run directly from the solar on a completely depleted battery unless it was in very bright sunlight, which is not recommended just for the sake not overheating it's components. Overall, I highly recommend it, and would give the radio five stars if the first one had not had that minor defect.

We gave our first one to a family member and bought the same one as a replacement. Works great!

I was super excited for all the features this radio had, and for the price I was expecting decent quality. Unfortunately right out of the packaging, the volume knob and/or speaker were faulty and did not work at all. This obviously rendered it useless as a radio, and basically relegated it to a glorified flashlight. I called tech support and we went through all the troubleshooting steps, but unfortunately this radio was just a dud. Poor quality, would not recommend.

I am going to appreciate this nice radio WHEN a hurricane hits South Florida this season. I MUST learn to use all the bells and whistles. A very great must have for this time of the year if you live in the south. THANKS for a quick honest transaction. Buy-- you will not be sorry.

It's nice to have an accessible and replaceable battery inside. Most digital emergency radios won't let me access the internal battery. I like the frame going around the tuner and volume knobs. There's 2 screws in it, but it looks like I'd remove the entire knob housing with them. I'd suggest making just the frame over the knobs removable if I wanted to. Why does the hand crank block the flashlight during part of its rotation? I could be using the flashlight while cranking because the battery's dead and I'll keep blocking the light. Why doesn't the telescoping antenna also articulate to go at any angle? Why are the lights a cool white when they'd be used at night, disrupting the circadian rhythm? How much more would warm white LEDs cost? The reading light/solar panel is loose so I can't keep it at low angles to catch the sun. It's all the way up or nothing. When grabbing it, assume you're going to unintentionally press a button. So you aim for the carrying strap instead but your thumb hits a button on the top. Any button makes the screen light up when the radio's off and every time I move the radio, the screen lights up. Not because of motion sensors, but because I accidentally hit a button. It's pretty weird that when I keep tuning in the SW band, it'll bounce back and forth between saying meters and AM depending on which frequency range I'm in. Not regular AM frequencies, but frequencies outside the AM band, while saying AM. Maybe I just need to learn more about this detail.

This radio, charger, light, and other emergency uses radio is perfect for traveling, use at home and a thoughtful gift.

It does everything it should do, and it does it well. Build/materials quality is excellent. Reception is excellent. It's the only "emergency radio" to my knowledge where you can enter frequencies directly (very useful in many cases) Scans frequencies very well so you don't need to do it manually. Many power options is a huge plus for this kind of radio.

Appareil gadget. Structure en plastique très fragile. Réception SW inefficace sans une antenne appropriée. Recharge solaire et par manivelle inefficace à moins de tourner sans cesse. Autonomie de la batterie interne ridicule, à peine une heure. Les piles Alalines AA s'usent très vite. Les piles rechargeables NiMh ne sont pas reconnues donc inutilisables sur cet appareil. Le mode d’emploi livré est uniquement en anglais. Les écouteurs ne m’ont pas été livrés. La qualité sonore est médiocre pour un appareil de ce prix.

good item - just what i was wanting to buy

Wow. This radio I never expected. It's really Good. Versatile. Tunes extremely well. Lots of Pluses and well worth the price.

Lors de panne d’électricité et lors de sorties dans la forêt.